Magazine of typographical composing-machines.



J. G. HOLBOURNS & W. FLETCHER.

MAGAZINE or TYPOGRAPHICAL oomrosme MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 28, 1908.

Patented Mar.8, 1910.

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Patented Mar.8,1910.

J. G. HOLBOURNS & W. FLETCHER.

MAGAZINE 0F TYPOGRAPHICAL GOMPOSING MACHINES.

\ APPLICATION FILED JULY 28, 951,245.

J. G. HOLBOURNS & W. FLETCHER.

MAGAZINE 0E TYPOGRAPHICAL OOMPOSING MACHINES.

' APPLICATION FILED JULY 28, 1908. 951 ,245, Patented Mar. 8, 1910.

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J. G. HOLBOURNS & W. FLETCHER. MAGAZINE 0F TYPOGRAPHICAL comosme MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 28, 190B. 95 1,245. Patented Mar. 8, 1910.

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' JOHN GLENNIE HOLBOU RNS AND WILLIAM FLETCHER, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MAGAZINE OF TYPOGRAIHIGAL COMFOSING-MACHTNES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ma. 8, 1910.

Application filed July 28, 1908. Serial No. 445,776. I

To all whom 'it concern:

Be it known that we, J OHN GLENNIE Hon- BOURNS and WILLIAM FLETCHER, subjects of the King of the United Kingdom of Great grap ical Composing-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements connected with the magazines of typographical com osing machines, the object ofit being to acilitate the substitution for the magazine in composing position and containing a certain font, of another similar magazinecontainin a different font. It is particularly applica le to such machines as have flat magazines removable from their composing positions for changes of font, as, for instance, the well-known Mergenthaler linotype machine described in the specification of Letters Patent 436532, September 16th 1890. In this machine, the magazine occupies an oblique position upon the machine, the back of it higher than the front and cooperating with the distributor while the said front cooperates with the assembler.

A substitution such as abovedescribed, is

known among linoty operators as a quick change, an several difierent methods of and means for elfecting it, have been pro osed.

Accor ing to the present invention, two magazines adapted tov contain different fonts, are pivotally connected to the machine, one magazine having the axis of its pivot along one side of ,it and the other magazine having that of its pivot along the opposite side of it ,'the two magazines being p voted to respectively opposite sides of the machine, whereby either magazine can be turned into and occupy the composing position on the machine, or be turned out of itv to make room for the other magazine.

The magazines are pivoted along their left and right hand sides instead of along their front and rear edges, for thereason. that neither of the said sides is called upon to cooperate with either the distributer or the pivota ly connected therewith contains thedesired font.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which are to be taken as part of this specification and read therewith and which show the present invention applied to a Mergenthaler linoty e machine-Figure 1 is a front assembler. The pivot of" each magazine elevation: Flg. 2, a detail front elevation of Y the left hand buffer in Fig. 1: Fig. 3, a side elevation from the right hand of F' l: Fig. 4:, a sectional detail elevation of the part detent on the frame: Fig. 5, a plan of a magazine having its pivots on its left hand side and the part detent that is carried by each magazine, at its right hand side: Fig. 6, a side elevation from the left hand of Fig. 5; and Fig. 7 a front elevation of Fig. 5. Fig. 8, is a plan; Fig. 9,. a side elevation' from the right hand of Fig.- 8, and Fig. 10, a plan showing a magazine fitted .with a modified type of pivot.

' The main frame of the machine is repre sented by part of the distributer bracket 1. Each magazine pivot is shown in Figs. 1

.to-7 as consisting of a tee 2 fast to and projectlng laterally from the respective side of the magazine, 3 or 4, and a ball 5 likewise fast to and projecting laterally from the same side, the-axis of the cross piece of the tee 2 and the center of the ball 5 being alined with each other and in the same plane, the said tee and ball being located the former to the rear and the latter to the front of the transverse median line of the magazine side and resting in respective stationary brackets 6 and 7 which are suitably shaped to receive the lower halves only of the said tee 2 and ball-5 respectively. These'brackets 6, 7 are made fast to and project laterally from the respective side of the magazine support, whatever that may be.

This support is shown as being the well-known magazine frame 8 and which in its turn rests upon the machine frame in the usual way. It is to be noted that the brackets 6 and 7 have, preferably, no cap plates, that they receive only the lower halves of the tee 2 and ball 5 respectively and that the ball 5 and its bracket 7 are in front. This arrangement is to facilitate a quick change when thesubstitution is from a source outside the machine, in which case one of the magazines pivotally connected with the machine must be taken ofl it. It is taken off by first turning it up on its pivot 2 and 5 until it is vertical and then turning it forward on its ball 5 and finally lifting it off. The said magazine pivot is shown in Figs. .8 to 10, as consistin of two similar and symmetrically positions stationary brackets 9, 9 fast to and projecting laterally from the respective side of the magazine support whatever that may be; two similar and symmetrically positioned brackets 10, 10 fast to and projecting laterally from the respective side of the magazine 3, and a screw 11 working about the axis of' the pivot on each bracket 9 and'having its nose engaging in a cooperating socket in the respective bracket 10. When each screw 11 has been set in working engagement with the respective bracket 10, it is locked by a suitable lock nut 12. When a ma azine fitted with such a pivot is to be quick changed, the rear screw 11 is disengaged from its bracket 10 while the magazine is in the composing position, the latter lifted off the machine, the substitute one ut in its place and its rear screw 11 engage with the cooperating bracket 10.

13 is a buffer mounted in each side of the distributor bracket 1 and projecting into the path of the respective magazine 3 or 4 when it is turned on its pivot out of the composing position. Each buffer is preferably outside the vertical position of the so turned-out magazine so that the latter, having passed its center, -shall lean against the said buffer, as shown in Fig. 1. A buffer is preferably fitted with a cushioning spring 14 which surrounds the buffer rod 15 and is resilient between the buffer 13 and the buffer support 16-see Figs. 1 and 2. The latter is made fast to the bracket 1 by any suitable means.

17 is a grip fast to each magazine on the side opposite to its pivot, to facilitate the act of either turning a magazine up out of the composing, posltion or of turning it down thereinto.

A magazine and its contained font are heavy. At the moment a quick change becomes necessary, one magazine say the ma zine 3 in F1 1 is down in the comg positionw 'le the other one, say 4,

as lieaning against the respective bufier 13.

airm- There must be a detent that will engage the turned up magazine as soon as it is up to its buffer 13 audit is advisable that there be also a detent held by the magazine that is in the composing position against the .one that is leaning against the respective buffer 13, to prevent it being accidentally disengaged from the first mentioned detent as by the vibration of the machine when it is at work or by any one pushing the said magazine. To comply with the necessity just explained there is for each magazine a part detent on the frame and a part detent on the other magazine. The part detent on the frame is shown in Figs. 1., 3 and 4. It consists of a vertical post 18 capable of a rising and falling motion through abra'cket 19 projecting laterally outward from the magazine frame 8 or equivalent stationary part of the machine adjacent to the pivot of the magazine with which the detent is to cooperate and preferably midway of the same; a spring '20, resilient between the bracket -19 and a shoulder 21 on the top of the post 18, a bevel or incline 22 on the said top next to the magazine when it is in the composing position, and a vertical flat 23 on the opposite side of the top, the bevel 22 and flat 23 meeting each other in an edge. The parts of the said part detentare so proportioned and positioned that when the respective magazine is down in the composing position, the spring 20 holds both the bevel 22 andthe fiat 23 in the path which the adjacent side of the said magazine will take as it""is being turned up out of the said position. As the said side engages the bevel 22, the post 18 is pushed down through the bracket 19, thereby compressing the sprin 20 and by the time the opposite side of t e magazine is home against the respective buffer 13, the magazine has cleared the post 18 whereupon the spring 20 pushes the flat 23 up over the adjacent face of the magazine, thereby holding it in the turned up position.

24 is a handle for disengaging the flat 23 from its magazine preparatory to turning the latter down into the composing position.

The part detent on a magazine, is shown in Figs. 1 and 5 to 10. It consists of :1 rectangular shaped piece 25 standing up from the top plate of a magazine, to which it is made fast by any suitable means, as by screws 26 screwed down through it and. the said top plate into some of the usual division plates inside the magazine, and holding a vertical side 27 of it sufficiently beyond that side of its magazine which is opposite to the pivot thereof, to bear upon the upturned magazine when its magazine is down in the com 'osing position. The piece 25 is preferab y upon or near the transverse median line of the magazine.

The usual escapement bar and set ofescapements mounted thereon are not illustrated because they do not constitute any part of the present invention. It is well known in the art that they may be either on the magazine or on the magazine support. The presentinvention follows this alternativeness and imposes only one condition, namely, that when the escapement bar and set of esca ements are mounted on the magazine, the ont half of a pivot, say a ball 5 and its bracket 7 must project laterally from the composing position far enough to hold the escapements on the respective magazine when the latter is up against its butter 13, out of the path which the other magazine will take as it is being turned up outof the composing position or down thereinto.

Any suitable means are used to efiect the adjustment of the magazine in composing position for the purpose of making it register properly with the distributer at the rear of it and the assembler entrance in front of it. The necessity of these adjustments is well known as well as what means are capable of effecting them. Each magazine must be adjustable in two directions, one from front to rear and the other from side to side. The means just mentioned are of the type shown in Figs. 3 and 5, viz., set screws 28 carried, say, by the magazine and bearing against brackets carried by, say the maga zine support. Fig. 8 shows the pivot screws 11 adapted to act as set screws for effecting the front to rear adjustment.

We claim,

1. In a typographical com osing machine, two magazines each pivote along one of its sides to the machine, the two pivots being on opposite sides of themachine.

2. In a typographical composing machine, two magazines pivotally connected to opposite sides of the machine whereby either may be readily'turned toor from composing position.

3. The combination with a typographical composing machine, of two magazines pivotally mounted at opposite sides of the machine and each separately detachable from the machine.

4. In a typographical composing machine having magazines pivoted thereon, a magazine pivot consisting of a tee and a ball projecting from the side of the magazine and engagln in stationary journals carried by the mac ine frame, the ball and its journal being in front of the tee and its journal. 5. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a supporting frame, of two magazines pivoted to opposite sides of said frame and adapted to e turned to and from composing position, and means for adjusting the magazine which is in composing position.

6.' In a typographical composing machine,

the combination with a supporting frame,

of two magazines pivoted to opposite sides 3 of and independently detachable from saidframe, and means for adjusting the mag'a 'zine which is in com osin osition.

7. In a typographmal'composing machine, the combination with a supporting frame,

of two magazines pivoted to opposite sides the combination of a magazine, a support therefor, a side pivotal connection between said magazine and said support, and a detent (:perative to hold said magazine with one si e upraised from said support.

10. In a typographical composing machine the combination of a suitable magazine supporting frame, a magazine, a pivotal connection between said frame an said magazine along one side thereof, said magazine being adapted to be swung upwardly away from composing position about said pivotal connection, and means for holding said magazine in its upturned, non-composing position. j

11. In a typographical composing machine, the combination with a suitable frame, of two magazines connected with the frame and adapted to swing in opposite directions to and fromcomposing position, and means for automatically engaging the magazine which is in non-composing position to retain said magazine in that position.

12. In a typographical composing'machine, the combination with a suitable frame, of two magazines connected with the frame and ada ted to swing in opposite directions to and romcomposing position, and means connected with each magazine adapted, when the magazine is in composing position, to hold the other magazine in non-composing position.- I

13. In a typographical composing machine,

the combination with a suitable frame, of

two magazines. connected with the frame and adapted to. swing in opposite directions to and from composing position, and means for automatically engaging the magazine which is in non-composing position to retain said magazine in that position, said means including a member on the machine frame and a member connected with the other magazine.

4 es e 14. In a typographical composing machine, In witness whereof we have hereunto setthe combmatlon wlth a magazme ivoted our hands in the presence of two witnesses. 10

thereto of means for movin the sai ma azine-011i: of composing position while ma in- JOHN GLENNIE HOLBOURNb' 5 'taining its connection with the machine; a WILLIAM FLETCHER supporting buffer on the machine frame; W1tnesses: and means for holding the magazine against HENRY HART,

the said buffer. I CHAS. S. Woomzorn. 

